Chapter 29: The Debt
"Xiu Ling, do you still remember the promise you owed me when you were pregnant?" The question from her husband's lips reverberated multiple times in Xiu Ling's brain.
Her mind went straight to the horrible memory and her back stiffened. The book she was reading fell from her frozen fingers and landed weakly on the plush bed. Her lips moved up and down like she was trying to say something but no voice seemed to form in her throat.
Her face was one of a trauma victim visiting the crime scene, cast in apprehension and dread.
Lin Kang probably missed the expression on her face or he simply chose to ignore it altogether. The man climbed onto the bed and pounced at his wife without warning. A gravelly growl could be heard saying, "Now that the baby is out, you have no excuse anymore. It is time for some fun."
Xiu Ling shrunk instinctively back from Lin Kang's aggression, like a helpless rabbit, she cowered in fear as the lion moved in on her.
She should have known better than to react in this way because it only worked to spur Lin Kang on but this had not happened for so long that in that moment, the lessons and tricks she had learned from being the man's bedroom partner did not even enter her mind.
In a way, it was not unlike their first time, the incident that led to this whole shebang. Similar to then, Xiu Ling's "performance" did wonders for the man's libido. "Xiu Ling, you have no idea how much I have missed this. I have gone through so many replacements but you are truly irreplaceable! No one does it quite like you," Lin Kang offered the "compliment" as he slathered big, wet kisses on the woman's bare skin.
However, his words had fallen on deaf ears because Xiu Ling was in too much of a traumatic shock to really comprehend what was happening. Her senses could pick up the touch of cold air from the air conditioning on her skin as Lin Kang shredded her clothes but the information failed to register in her brain like the synapses in her brain simply could not process it.
Lin Kang's kisses left a trail of blazes on her skin but at the time, they sent icy chills down to her heart.
When the man yanked off her pants, Xiu Ling's hand reached involuntarily for the book that was left on the bed and without realizing what she was doing, she swiped it at the man's head.
That stopped the man right in his tracks. Lin Kang looked at her in a daze. This reaction of hers was so unexpected that he too had difficulty to process it. His hand moved to touch the spot slightly beneath the left temple that Xiu Ling had struck as if to confirm that such a thing had truly happened and he did not just imagine it in his mind.
Xiu Ling's heart dropped assuming the man would turn violent, which was not that much worse considering the situation. 'How much worse can it get?' was the question that popped up in her mind.
However, to her surprise and apprehension, as Lin Kang got out of the daze, the corners of his lips twitched into a smile. With eyes glinting with dangerous interest, he growled, "Getting a bit feisty in bed, are we? You know what, I believe I quite enjoy that. It is no fun without a little resistance. Xiu Ling, I hope this means you are ready for me to kick things up a notch."
Perhaps the man had inherited this sadistic tendency from Mrs. Lin because they both enjoyed getting a rise out of their targets in their need for subjection.
Xiu Ling's heart chilled because she realized, things indeed could still be worse. She assumed the tragedy she would suffer that night was going to be one or the other but she did not expect it could be both at the same time.
Every cell in her body screamed with alarm and her first instinct was to run. However, this was the bedroom, where could she possibly run to?
Xiu Ling shrunk away from the man. However, she only managed to move one inch when the man reached out to grab her wrists and tightened them in a lock. Lin Kang then pressed both her hands above her head and leaned down to deliver smooches on his wife's face and body. As he moved about to explore his wife's delicious body, the motion loosened the knot of the towel around his waist and it eventually fell off.
The man's clasp on her wrists was so hard that it sent sharp jolts of pain through Xiu Ling. It caused tears to well in her eyes before sliding down her face. In that moment, Xiu Ling had trouble telling whether she was crying from pain or from the tragedy she had found herself in.
As the sound of cloth ripping drifted into her ears, Xiu Ling's tears came even harder. In that moment, she did not realize the sound of crying had escaped from her lips.
This attracted Lin Kang's attention and when he saw the tears falling down his wife's cheek, it did not cross his mind to figure out why she was crying, instead, he moved upwards to lick the tears off her face. The man had fallen way too deep into his fantasy to rationally dissect what was happening before him.
It was also the reason why he was completely unprepared when the bedroom door suddenly burst open. A shadow with a flurry of action dashed into the room and knocked into Lin Kang.
Lin Kang was caught off guard and he lost his balance, rolling off the side of the bed. He grimaced from the rough landing. Before he could recover, a hail of slaps ran down on him.
He was too shocked to do anything but to raise both his hands to shield himself from the assault.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone